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Mood:
- BleakDisturbingRoughCaptivatingSuspenseful
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Plot:
- Tough HeroesNothing Goes RightRescueSurvivalChaos and MayhemBattlesDangerHeroes more...
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Genres:
- DramaHistoricalWarAction
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- AfricaBattlezone
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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- Award WinnerBlockbusterCritically AcclaimedOscar WinnerPrestigious Awards
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Based on:
- Based on BookBased on True Story
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- SeriousRealisticFast
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- Strong Violent Content
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Black Hawk Down, 2001
English, Somali
USA
Profile of Black Hawk Down
Black Hawk Down can be described as disturbing, bleak, and captivating. The plot revolves around chaos and mayhem, battles, and chaos. The main genres are drama, war, and historical. In approach, Black Hawk Down is serious and realistic. The storytelling is fast paced. It is set, at least in part, in a battlezone. Black Hawk Down is located in Africa. It takes place in the 1990s. It is originally a true story and based on a book. Black Hawk Down has received attention for being a blockbuster, an award winner, and critically acclaimed. It is well suited for a boys' night. Note that it involves strong violent content.
Summary of Black Hawk Down
On October 3, 1993, Army Rangers and members of the elite Delta Force participated in a covert operation in Mogadishu, Somalia that went horribly wrong. Sent to abduct two lieutenants of a vicious Somali warlord, the soldiers found themselves surrounded by hostile militia. Two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down and many men lost their lives. Mark Bowden of the Philadelphia Inquirer told the story of the battle in his exhaustively researched, critically acclaimed book, BLACK HAWK DOWN, and filmmaker Ridley Scott (GLADIATOR) and screenwriter Ken Nolan have done an amazing job of bringing the dramatic story to the screen. Like Bowden's book, the film does not thoroughly examine the context of the conflict, but gives a detailed and intense blow-by-blow account of the fighting. The outstanding ensemble cast includes Josh Hartnett as a competent but nervous Ranger sergeant leading his first mission, Ewan McGregor as a "desk jockey" who excels when sent into combat, Eric Bana (THE INCREDIBLE HULK) as a cocky and enigmatic Delta, and Ron Eldard as a downed Black Hawk pilot. The violence of the film is brutal and nearly constant. Scott unflinchingly captures the chaos and mayhem of battle with tremendous visual finesse.
Details
| Language: | English, Somali |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 18 January 2002 |
| Runtime: | 152 min |
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Critics Reviews
Rolling Stone
A personal best for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, a triumph for Scott and a war film of prodigious power. You will be shaken.
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- by: Peter Travers
USA Today
Black Hawk turns nightmare into great cinema.
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- by: Mike Clark
Users Reviews
I didn't expect to like this move but it was fantastic. This is a very powerful movie that portrays what "Our Men" go through in battle. I never realized how important it is to make sure no man gets left behind, but that concept is the basis of the...
- 12.October.2009
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- by: Dan
- Dan rated this movie
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Gee, I don't know what special moments I missed. To me, this was a very typical war movie. I never felt a thing for the characters. In large part because I could never figure out who the characters were. It's a problem with all war movies -- all...
- 11.June.2009
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- by: jostrem
- jostrem rated this movie4/10Disappointing
